Forecast Last Updated at Monday, August 3, 2020 at 6:19PM

The Tropical Squeeze Play Remains

A stationary front + Tropical Storm Isaias will maintain mostly cloudy skies tonight with widespread showers and thunderstorms around western North Carolina. The weather diet becomes more traditional by tomorrow as we revert back to that widely scattered to scattered daily PM shower and thunderstorm recipe for the remainder of the period.

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Monday Hi: 69 Lo: 65 Mostly cloudy; Intervals of showers & perhaps a thunderstorm; Light ENE wind

Tuesday Hi: 86 Lo: 64 Early clouds giving way to sunshine; An isolated shower or thundershower; Light SW wind

Wednesday Hi: 86 Lo: 65 Partly cloudy; Scattered PM showers & thunderstorms; Light SE wind

Thursday Hi: 86 Lo: 65 Partly cloudy; Scattered PM showers & thunderstorms

Friday Hi: 86 Lo: 65 Afternoon cloud build-ups; Scattered PM showers & storms

Further Out

Saturday - Lots of sunshine; Hit-or-miss PM showers & thunderstorms; Very warm; High in the upper 80s; Low in the mid 60s
Sunday - Plenty of sunshine; Widely-separated PM showers & thunderstorms; Very warm; High in the upper 80s; Low in the mid 60s

Forecast Discussion

Tropical Storm Isaias is tracking northward off the South Carolina coast this evening and is scheduled to make landfall near NC/SC coastal border before midnight (perhaps regaining hurricane intensity). It will then track northward through eastern North Carolina before exiting into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern states.

While we will not have rainfall directly associated with Isaias, the tropical interaction between moisture streaming northward and converging with a stationary front over the Foothills will create an unsettled, showery overnight for western North Carolina.

Starting tomorrow, we revert back to our regularly-scheduled summertime programming for the remainder of the week and into the weekend: Ample daily sunshine, warmer temperatures, with hit-or-miss PM showers and thunderstorms through the period. Some days will be more favored than others for thundershowers, but it's hard to single out until a day or two beforehand.

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